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…even after a number of viewings, I’m still not sure if what I have seen is a kind of high Euro-modernist masterpiece about race, culture, urban rage and alienated identity – or a perversely opaque and frustrating essay in enigma, a labyrinth of blind alleys, in which putative solutions are forbiddingly walled off. It is a film which gestures at the literal incomprehensibility of experience, how it resists encirclement and extends beyond the perimeters of perception and interpretation. The mood of Code Unknown is moreover often fractious, crackling with unease and ill-humour, and yet this is a movie whose images and personae linger in the mind, and which can deliver dazzlingly generous, compassionate insights…
Peter Bradshaw, The GuardianRead More »

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In Stockholm, the fashion photographer Susanne Frank misses her married lover Henrik Lobelius that lives in Gothenburg with his wife and children, and the naive twenty years old model Doris has a troubled relationship with her boy friend Palle Palt. Susanne schedules a session of photo shoots in Gothenburg with Doris, and once there, she calls Henrik for an encounter. Meanwhile, Doris meets an elegant middle age gentleman on the street, the Consul Otto Sönderby, who buys expensive gifts for her: a dress, a pair of Italian gloves and valuable pearl necklace.Read More »

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A married man and woman find their lives disrupted after their affair is exposed by the police. Leaving their respective families, the two decide to live together.

Hansa Vilak was ahead of its time and a movie like none other before in Sri Lanka Cinema. Sometimes quite experimental, it is most overall a movie of high sensibility. It shows like no other movie in Cinema History the sentiment of guilt and the consequences of an adultery affair.Read More »

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An old man is kidnapped. His interrogation uncovers the biography of a mass muderer: The 80 years old man was a SS leader and responsible for the killing of thousands of people in Russia. He also “invented” an evil technique of eliminating political prisoners: the manipulated suicide. Thomas Harlan reconstructs the history of a burocratic muderer, he also develops a direct connection between the Nationalsocialism and the treatment of prisoners of the RAF terrorists in the Stuttgart isolation prison. Robert Kramer filmed the shooting of Harlan’s Wundkanal: Notre Nazidocuments a social experiment in which the children of Nazis and of victims meet a real culprit. The reality seems to be stronger that the fiction in Harlan’s film.Read More »

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Bored with her predictable middle class life, 20-something Camille decides to do something impulsive, like fall in love with the next man who comes her way. The lucky individual turns out to be Costa, a young delinquent who already has a young daughter, whom he neglects. Camille follows Costa to his home and the young man soon succumbs to her charms. Costa’s friend Cyril, a cop, also finds Camille irresistible, but he wonders if her naivety is genuine or a merely ploy to get what she wants…Read More »

Clara and Nikolaï meet at a rave. They return to Nikolaï’s apartment and make love. Afterwards, instead of parting, the two lovers divulge their deepest secrets to one another.

Nicolaï is a beautiful loser. At thirty-one years old, he leads a simple and frugal life. He applies himself to reading the great classics of literature but never finishes a book he has begun. Unable to submit to any schedule, he finds himself unfit for work. He envisions big projects and has large ideas but, inevitably and despite himself, loses sight of them beforethey are realized.Read More »

In a small, depopulated village of the Aude province of France, an elderly couple confides to the “vacationer”‘s camera their memories of the past: war, illness, death… 
The film is put together as a collection of autonomous images which, once combined, make up van der Keuken’s mental universe: family happiness, fragments of some of his earlier films, a homage to the saxophonist Ben Webster, two poems by the great contemporary poets Remco Campert and Lucebert, a portrait of the director’s grandfather, who taught him photography at the age of twelve… 
”One of those small masterpieces one encounters by surprise…” Jean-Paul Fargier, Cahiers du Cinéma, 1975Read More »

La sconfitta, 1973, 23min
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Lost hopes of a young leftist.

Paté de Bourgeois, 1973, 26min
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About politics, television and ads in Italy.

Come parli, fraté?, 1974, 52min
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Satiric version of the italia novel Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni.

This is really really rare material. Enjoy.Read More »

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After killing a child on a routine bombing mission in Vietnam, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. Returning to France, he lives like a vegetable until he meets a young girl who has been dumped by her father at a boarding school. Posing as her father, Pierre contrives to meet the girl every Sunday, to play with her and perhaps recover his memory. The innocent friendship is misread by nearly everyone, even people who know Pierre well. A classic of old French art films.Read More »